The Quarterly Review, Volume 92William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1853 |
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... duty - and accordingly he added to his staff a clergyman of the Church , who seems to have entered on the work with the same earnest spirit . ' I look upon this appointment , ' says the thoughtful and modest Manager , as the means of ...
... duty - and accordingly he added to his staff a clergyman of the Church , who seems to have entered on the work with the same earnest spirit . ' I look upon this appointment , ' says the thoughtful and modest Manager , as the means of ...
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... duty and of acting up to it . The outlay , indeed , involved in the scheme we have described , and which was incurred simply as a matter of duty without reference to any temporal return , was large . From the period when the half ...
... duty and of acting up to it . The outlay , indeed , involved in the scheme we have described , and which was incurred simply as a matter of duty without reference to any temporal return , was large . From the period when the half ...
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... duty , and his work soon recompensed him for his sacrifice ; he became insensibly as much interested in it as ever , and in society regained , to all appearance at least , his usual spirits . We spoke of his verse making - we had ...
... duty , and his work soon recompensed him for his sacrifice ; he became insensibly as much interested in it as ever , and in society regained , to all appearance at least , his usual spirits . We spoke of his verse making - we had ...
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... duty of the Professor not only to prepare and deliver , but to publish , lectures on the law of nature , the law of nations , commercial and maritime law , federal law , and federal equity . In England we should smile at the notion of a ...
... duty of the Professor not only to prepare and deliver , but to publish , lectures on the law of nature , the law of nations , commercial and maritime law , federal law , and federal equity . In England we should smile at the notion of a ...
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... duty to inform himself thoroughly in all the bearings and workings of the American Constitution . We have hardly afforded our readers any specimen of Story's own writing ; they will not regret our selecting for them the concluding ...
... duty to inform himself thoroughly in all the bearings and workings of the American Constitution . We have hardly afforded our readers any specimen of Story's own writing ; they will not regret our selecting for them the concluding ...
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Página 188 - The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Página 160 - Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Página 200 - There are in the piece those profound touches of the human heart which I find three or four times in " The Robbers " of Schiller, and often in Shakespeare, but in Wordsworth there are no inequalities.
Página 128 - The thing that hath been is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Página 187 - I was called upon, among other scholars, to write verses upon the completion of the second centenary from the foundation of the school in 1585 by Archbishop Sandys. These verses were much admired — far more than they deserved, for they were but a tame imitation of Pope's versification, and a little in his style.
Página 545 - The history of a battle is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events, of which the great result is the battle won or lost ; but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.
Página 48 - ... rusticus expectat, dum defluat amnis: at ille labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.
Página 328 - With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Página 475 - Call on a business man at business times only, and on business ; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.
Página 517 - Tis enough to make one thoughtful ; but no matter : my die is cast, they may overwhelm me, but I don't think they will outmanoeuvre me. First, because I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to be ; and secondly, because if what I hear of their system of manoeuvres be true, I think it a false one as against steady troops. I suspect all the continental armies were more than half beaten before the battle was begun. I, at least, will not be frightened beforehand.